The Muslims should be careful, The Japanese have some experience at sending suicidal attackers into the fray.....The Japanese are not as dhimmified as the rest of the world.....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at February 12, 2007 4:38 PM

Just what I was thinking. They won't take any s**t! It's helpful really: nobody was injured, but it might wake up Japan against islam.

Posted by: Lili at February 12, 2007 4:41 PM

have you noticed how many paki terrorists cells are spreading world wide? l say to the US led military in afganistan, keeping the bombing of the borders of pakistan, maybe the terrorists will return to the pak.

Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at February 12, 2007 4:49 PM

Amazing ! I said before, instead of Vietnam, why not the Middle East ? Obviously, America was bent on the Communist when in actuality, it was the Islamics to be concerned with. Yeah, hindsight is truly 20/20.

Posted by: Jeff at February 12, 2007 4:52 PM

A very wise country, Japan. No multi-culturalism nonsense. No wholesale open gate immigration policy putting the ridiculous strain on the taxpayers and law enforcement. And instead of importing people as their population ages, they're very wisely adjusting their culture and industry to it -- with robots in many cases. As their country gradually depopulates naturally to more pleasant levels over the next few decades it will only become a better and better place to live.

Jihad will not last very long there, and there will be no ridiculous politically correct debate and no millions thrown away in a bottomless moneypit for appeasement to people who are not willing to adjust themselves to the culture of the country they chose to immigrate to.

Posted by: Abraham_Lincoln at February 12, 2007 4:56 PM

Bad news:

1 - There is a cornucopia of leftist baloney and blanket reflexive passivism in Japan.

2 - Young Japanese are pretty slack these days.

Good news:

1 - Jihad chic has not caught on. The Japanese left is predominantly too passivist to enjoy the bloody jihadi vision of life. It grosses them out.

2 - There is a quiet and growing consensus that there is something seriously wrong with the moslems and their cultures.

3 - There is a growing movement toward Japanese patriotism (which has been very weak since we kicked their butts in WWII), even to the point of wanting to amend their passivist constitution to give the military more leeway.

4 - Japanese cultural pride is pretty intact and strong. It never really went away. It just got real quiet.

5 - They have no problem about saying "You're a foreigner. Get out of here!".

7 - They resemble Americans in one important, and scary, respect. They are slow to anger. But once they're honestly pissed off, look out!

Posted by: joeblough at February 12, 2007 5:40 PM

joeblough,

I second that. I lived in Japan for seven years before I moved to Australia and that's the impression I got.

I was looking for the 'Toyama Koran Incident'- they must have taken it off the web since the creep (a Pakistani) clearly rejoices over the murder of Salman Rushdie's translator and threatens similar treatment of others. At the same time he was demanding that sharia should be applied in Japan, too bad I couldn't retrieve it. I have to go through my files.

But they (jihadi's) are there, sure. How did they get in?

http://sheikyermami.com/2007/02/12/in-huntingdon-southwest-of-montreal-municipal-councillors-adopted-a-resolution-tuesday-night-supporting-multiculturalism-and-called/

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at February 12, 2007 5:57 PM

sheik yer'mami,

Thanks for the validation. My time there is intermittent, so I'm never sure how generally true my impressions are.

One curious thing I notice, is that they are often surprised when I say that I regard Japan as one of the world's cultural bulwarks of freedom and human rights.

For some reason they don't seem to expect to hear such things from an American.

My hunch is that they are going to become more important in this respect over the coming decades as Europe declines.

They don't wear their individualism on their sleeve the way we do, but scratch the surface and it's there. And surprisingly robust.

Posted by: joeblough at February 12, 2007 6:36 PM

The Japanese are far more discriminatory than we are and in this respect the discrimination is good. It will allow them to highlight those who would sink from sight in America. Normally I'm against that state of mind but when it comes to the defense of your nation there are worse forms of discrimination. You find them on the opposing side. Shooting little girls wearing white tennis shoes because they aren't allowed to wear the color of purity, for an example from the taliban.

Posted by: Mike H. at February 12, 2007 6:46 PM

Anybody noticed that muslims seem to be at odds virtually with any nonmuslim country and that all G7 countries are exposed to the threats of jihadism?
Europe, US, India, China (northern provinces), Russia, now Japan. Let's don't even talk about Nigeria, Thailand, Philippines etc. Look for a place where muslims live and jihad seems to be just around the corner.
In Saudi-Arabia, the possession of a bible or crucifix is prohibited and persecuted. I wonder why.
In psychology there's a theory (don't know it's name) that you can't help but expecting your opponent to act in accordance to your own thoughts and mind.
So muslims would be supposed to assume that the bible is for christians what the qu'ran is for them. So if they consider the bible as a sort of a weapon they have to protect themselves from they obviously might very well consider their qu'ran a weapon, too.
Erdogan, the turkish prime minister once called
the minarets of the mosques the bajonets of islam.
(it's been before his time as a prime minister and he got prosecuted for that in Turkey - yet, well, it obviously wasn't much of an obstacle on his way to be become prime minister). Please don't forget that Turkey still is a secular muslim state..
Just do it like the Saudis, our greatest friends and allies - declare the posession of the qu'ran illegal (what do you have allies for if not to learn from them?). It should contain enough hate speech to be prosecutable anyway. I wonder why up to now noone ever tried to do so. The qu'ran f.e. calls Jews and Christians apes and pigs. Now.. think how much time would pass if some Christian paper (let's even assume it doesn't exceed some hundred copies..) would attribute the same characteristics to muslims...Count 1, 2, 3 and lawsuits filed by insulted and outraged muslims would pop up like mushroom. Not to talk of the usual "peaceful" jihadist action.

Posted by: flibustier at February 12, 2007 6:46 PM

Muslims like to hack the necks off their prisoners or those who they have kidnapped- its a cultural thing. It would be advisable they didnt try this in Japan, the land of the Samurai sword. A friend of mine has one of these swords - and I give it a wide berth.

Posted by: DP111 at February 12, 2007 6:49 PM

Well, well, well! Isnt this an interesting development.

As many of you might know, I think, write, post, etc. according to my end time "world view" perspective. Its not "head in the sand" religious doctrine at all. I think that way because I asked Jesus to move in and he did! Taking up residence "inside" as he promised, He also talks to me all the time as he also promised. Do I hear an audible voice? No. He CAN speak that way if He wants but He speaks to me thru the "still small voice", inside, as the Bible says.

THEREFORE, I heard His voice last night and again this morning, speak to me about Japan. Hmmmmm, interesting isnt it?

What I believe He was showing me was certainly a different "world view" than before. I have posted here several times before, saying--"Welcome to WW3". In relation to WW1 and WW2, this was with one nation or two nations we characterised as an "Axis of Evil". They were all "isms": Nationalism, Communism, Naziism, Fascism, and Shintoism. These "isms" actually became their "religion". Usually one or two countries would embrace a particular "ism", but for the most part, conquered nations did not embrace that particular "ism" but rather bitterly hated and despised their oppressers. All of those nations in the Pacific didnt follow Shintoism and consequently, hate the Japanese to this day. And so on.

Its now difficult to name nations that dont have very active and vigorously growing Muslim populations. Islam is not only an "ism" as such, but a religion that not only conquers but converts at an astonishing rate. This is like WW2 squared!! Before, the whole world was involved, but dealt with the invading armies of one or two nations.

It is now reported that Islam AND Christianity each have about 1 1/2 billion followers. Each "evangelize" vigorously. One with Love, one with fear and hate.

Talk about your clash of the Titans. Or cultures, or civiliziations. Take your pick. Either way it seems to approach, doesnt it?

It has all been written. Transcribed over several thousand years by many different "writers" who heard something "inside".

P.S. God is Love and LOVE wins!! It is written.

P.P.S. The word Titan is an offense to God because the "Titans" were a mythological race of people who set themselves above God. This is probably why the "Titanic" sank, especially since the designer said "Even God could not sink this ship".

Again---Welcome to WW3!

Posted by: guide inside at February 12, 2007 7:21 PM

The Japanese translator of "The Satanic Verses" by Rushdie was killed in Japan. I don't think he was ever caught.

Posted by: non-redneck at February 12, 2007 9:12 PM

i thought that the yakuza controlled all immigtration into their country?

those yakuza need to start cutting off a few heads!

Get ready for the entire liberal west to start bitching like little pansies when middle eastern types are found decapitated in the japanese countryside.

Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at February 12, 2007 9:26 PM

I agree 100% with JoeBlough about Japan.

I do think the Japanese will have no problem infiltrating the mosques direcvtly and by cutting probation deals with petty criminals and visa violators from Malaysia and other Asian Muslim countries.

Posted by: tokyobk at February 12, 2007 10:09 PM

The Sigafreddo in Shibuya near the station seems to have a crowd of scary looking people always in there talking in hushed tones in the back in a certain semetic language (hint: not aramaic).

I told this to a friend of mine who used to think I was a bigot and now largely agrees with me re: terror and religion and even back then he agreed that that is a creepy gathering.

Posted by: tokyobk at February 12, 2007 10:13 PM

The source also tells ABC News around two dozen Pakistanis had been sent to Japan on student visas in the late 1990s to set up "sleeper cells," and those individuals had linked with operatives from the leading Indonesian terror group, Jemaah Islamiya.

Posted by Robert at 04:29 PM | Comments

I wonder how many of the ten thousand Saudis Bush just welcomed to America were sent here to form sleeper cells. Why did Bush create the Department of Homeland Security? He won't protect our borders; he won't stop muslim immigration; profiling is out of the question; "students" from all over the insane asylum AKA the "islamic world" pour into this country to get educated by their inferiors. Chertoff can't even see the connection between worldwide terrorism and islam/muslims.

What a mess! It would be funny if they weren't playing with our lives, the incompetent, ignorant, politically correct morons!

Posted by: Susanp at February 12, 2007 10:52 PM

I just got back from 3 months in Japan. On the news you see a ratio of 3 to 1 - al Jazeera news vs. CNN, on the average. That is not encouraging. Most Japanese I spoke with while 'politely correct' think the US and the West are misguided at best and hyper-agressive at the worst. They think we are the ones who are wrong. They HAVE NOT forgiven us for their humiliation in WWII. They are a face based culture much like the Islamists and will side with a like culture. They want us out!

It is long past time we awoke to the depth of the threat we face.

Posted by: Robohobo at February 13, 2007 12:00 AM

Robohobo,

I didn't spend any time watching TV last time there. Do you mean to say that they are broadcasting Al Jazeera in Japanese?

Posted by: joeblough at February 13, 2007 1:01 AM

Considerations of Japanese courtesy aside, personally I didn't see any indication of sympathy for the jihaddis. On the contrary, everyone who mentioned them in my presence did so with apparent disdain if not disgust.

That said, the Japanese will think carefully about taking on a population of 1 billon with a potential 150 - 300 million active hostiles.

The Japanese only number about 150 million total themselves. (Albeit with a historical memory of kicking both Russia and China's butts, both bigger and more numerous countries).

They will be counting heavily on alliances and are watching our conduct toward Korea and Taiwan very carefully.

Their alternative alliance is China. And to my eye they seem to regard the Chinese as two-faced cold-hearted SOB's. But, racially related, conveniently located SOB's.

I haven't heard a single person propose that Japan's interests lie in forming a closer warmer relation with the mohammanuts.

On another note, I would account their critical view of American aggression to their passivism rather than some pent up post-WWII resentment.

I can say with confidence that an American can form close relations of trust and affection with people who lost relatives in the pacific theater. I have.

I think that anti-American sentiment in Japan is, if anything, somewhat weaker than anti-American sentiment here at home.

I recognize that there is a certain level of nationalist hostility toward America and white folks in general, but I think it's limited to the wing-nuts. I think of them as the Japanese Buchanan types. ;-) Other than that, it seems to me to be a left wing phenomenon.

Remember, they have the same problems with the left that we have.

Posted by: joeblough at February 13, 2007 1:51 AM